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Ready to be published? LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc. Do you have something to say to the Linux community?

Intel already employs some prominent Linux developers, BTW, and it has a comfortable spot near the top of the list of most prominent employers in LWN's regular "who wrote Linux" summaries. So, Roy, I guess we're using a criminal kernel, then.

"FOSS keeps people honest. That’s the #1 reason there is such strong, well-funded opposition to it. Honesty is Kryptonite to anyone who makes their living peddling lies. The big lie that gets my goat every time is these big tech companies that continually boast of their innovation. All they innovate are stagnation and barriers to innovation"

“The poster child for this is the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). Whatever you may think of OLPC itself, it spawned the netbook revolution. All those titans of industry have had the resources since forever to invent the netbook on their own. They all badmouthed and undermined OLPC. Now they can’t crank out their own OLPC ripoffs fast enough."

“2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC board.”

“Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the AMD Geode LX-700.”

“Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project. Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power consumption compared to the AMD powered one. “

”Intel eliminates salary allowances to stop fraud […] The Times of India had reported in September last year that the company was conducting a serious investigation into malpractices related to allowance claims, resulting in the exit of several hundred employees.”

You may not care about my opinion, and I certainly don't care about yours.

But I will say that you know how to hurt FOSS at all times and in all places. You can find something bad to say about anyone, any company, any contributor to FOSS. Don't you get tired of trying to divide the community? Just once you should contribute something.

I can guarantee that both Alan Cox and Intel have done a lot more for FOSS than you ever will. Alan Cox knows why he went to Intel. If it's for the money, good for him, you are in no position to judge him. BTW, how much to you get paid from Microsoft?

I don't care for the slur on Alan Cox, which I missed on first read. "Why is Alan Cox moving to the criminal organisation??? They must have paid him handsomely." Alan is an honorable man and one of the pillars of Linux, and doesn't deserve to be slimed. For shame, Roy.

@Roy, thanks for driving home my point from another thread, it's not about the man because all a man is, is who his his employer is. So I'll remind you as I did them, of Linus' days at Transmeta. A little more thinking cap and a little less tin foil hat, kthxby.